Over 1.300 children have become ill with toxic lead levels from the factories. They have now shut down the second factory. The first one shut down when over 600 children developed lead poisoning.
There has been 2 of the head members of the factory held for questioning on the toxic conditions.
When you start dealing with children getting sick, parents will step up to defend their rights and ask questions more then other times. In this case on Monday, parents had become furious enough that they illegally went a factory near Baoji looking for answers.
The toxic poisoning is the most harmful to children less then 6 years of age. It can cause many health issues, affect their abilitly to learn and cause seizures.
A little 10 month old baby girl has lost her hair and become ill that lives near a factory. All the children that have been sickened by the toxic condition are less then 14 years of age.
The parents, after suspecting that the factories were the cause for the sickness their children are experiencing, set up a barricade to make the officials aware of what is happening to their children.
Of the 600 youngsters showing signs of the toxic condition, about 150 of them had to be cared for at the hospital.
There are 1,354 youngsters living near the factory in Hunan in 4 different towns located close to the Wugang Manganese Smeltering factory that have been examined and show an unreasonable amount of lead in their systems.
China has seen a lot of economic growth over the past 20 years or so resulting in a lot of air, soil and water becoming polluted. It has gone to far when children are getting sick.
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